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Feathers have long been recognized as a classic example of efficient water-shedding — as in the well-known expression “like water off a duck’s back.” A combination of modeling and laboratory tests...
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The Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) recently presented three researchers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering — C. Justin Kamp, Alex G. Sappok, and Victor W. Wong — with the 2014 Arch T...
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RoboClam Inspired by Efficient Razor Clam
Razor clam, left, versus RoboClam, right.
The Atlantic razor clam uses very little energy to burrow into undersea soil at high speed. Now a detailed...
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Undergraduate
Alfred A. H. Keil Ocean Engineering Development Award (For Excellence in Broad-Based Research in Ocean Engineering)
Beckett Colson, Lampros Tsontzos
AMP Inc. Award (Outstanding ...
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The Case of the Welcome “Hairball”
by Alissa Mallinson
PhD student Folkers Rojas (SB ‘09, SM ‘11, PhD ‘14)Photo credit: Tony Pulsone
What do a bathtub hairball and a MechE-developed blowout ...
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Under the Sea
By Jessica Fujimara, MIT News Office
Photo credit: Allegra Boverman
A house by the sea isn’t uncommon, but it takes a true love of the ocean to want to live beneath the sea.
When...
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Professor Sapsis’ research focuses on the area of stochastic dynamical systems in ocean engineering, including uncertainty quantification of turbulent fluid flows, passive protection configurations...
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“As engineers, the untapped potential of the oceans calls to us…but we also feel responsible for protecting them.”
Gang Chen, Carl Richard Soderberg Professor of Power Engineering and Department...
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by Alissa Mallinson
MechE’s 2N program in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering is almost as old as the department’s main Course 2 program in mechanical engineering.
The graduate program,...
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Dr. Dana Yoerger standing in front of the AUV SENTRY on the vessel Atlantis.
by Alissa Mallinson
Everything he’d learned up until that point, every study he’d conducted, every time out at sea...
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by Alissa Mallinson
It sounds too simple to be true, but Meg O’Neill credits much of her career success – and personal satisfaction – to her willingness to say one three-letter word.
Meg O’...
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by Alissa Mallinson
Vice Admiral Paul Sullivan
For Vice Admiral Paul Sullivan, USN (Retired) (SM ‘80), a graduate and later an Associate Professor of Naval Architecture of what is today MechE’s 2N...
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New Methods and Software Can Predict Optimal Paths for Automated Underwater Vehicles
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Pierre Lermusiaux Photo credit: M. Scott Brauer
Sometimes the fastest...
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Large-Scale Tests in the Lab and the South China Sea Reveal the Origins of Underwater Waves that Can Tower Hundreds of Feet
By David Chandler, MIT News Office
Their effect on the surface of the ...
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The Sherlock Holmes of the Seas
by Alissa Mallinson
Professor Emeritus Jerome Milgram Photo courtesy of the MIT Museum
He refers to himself as a seagoing Sherlock Holmes.
Known for many things,...
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Engineering and the Ocean Environment: Challenge and Opportunity
by Alissa Mallinson
Vast and seemingly impenetrable, the ocean inspires endless fascination. It is the topic of countless tales...
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Lallit Anand, the Warren and Towneley Rohsenow Professor of Mechanical Engineering, has been selected to receive the 2014 Daniel C. Drucker Medal. Established by the Applied Mechanics Division of the...
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The MIT School of Engineering recently honored outstanding faculty, and graduate and undergraduate students, with the following awards:
Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching — given to a faculty...
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The paleoclimate record for the last ice age — a time 21,000 years ago called the “Last Glacial Maximum” (LGM) — tells of a cold Earth whose northern continents were covered by vast ice sheets....
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You can quickly run out of fingers and toes counting the many ways we waste energy. Take our sewage systems, for example: The energetic content of wastewater is about 10 times the amount of energy it...